Here are a few posters I made for our Grade 6 social studies classes to read around ancient lives. Our G6 curriculum is pretty heavy on the ancient civilizations – moving from the IB / MYP system it’s the first time I’ve seen the American Curriculum in full force with a text book and doing all the civilizations in one year starting with Mesopotamia – “the cradle of civilization”. A weekend trip I took to Iraq earlier this year was a most amazing experience. There’s so much more to the area than what is taught / seen on the news.

It’s interesting to see the sweep of history progress over the year for our students – and interesting to see the contrast between a content versus conceptual way of studying the world. We’re not quite through the year, with Greece coming up – including a most amazing trip to Greece in the new year which really helps history to come to life for our students, so there will be some new posters coming up soon.

By Nadine Bailey – middle school teacher librarian, currently living and working in Dubai, formerly in Beijing China, Singapore and a bunch of other cities around the world. Passionate about our students seeing themselves and their worlds in literature and developing curiosity and a passion for reading and learning.

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